Letter: Not much of a murder mystery

Letter to the Daily Herald editor

Perhaps my wife and I need to expand our horizons. I dunno.

We seem to have this craving to watch murder mysteries. Don't get me wrong. We are church going, family and friend loving, taxpaying citizens. And we would never even think of doing anything intentionally wrong ... really, even ask our neighbors.

With that in mind, my point: this heartbeat thing. Murder mysteries tend to produce a human body. The body used to be called "Joe" or "Jane," but now just "The Body."

And why? Because once the "Joe" had a heartbeat ... now, no heartbeat and, therefore, just "The Body."

Determining life or no life has always been a pulse ... a pulse of blood flowing through the artery pumped from a beating heart.

When does life begin? Well, we seem to have figured out when life ends.

The new "heartbeat bill" in Georgia may be onto something here.

Richard J McEwen

Ingleside